MAYA MILENOVIC WORKMAN

Maya is an Artistic Director of MADLOM Choreographer/Director and a writer.
Maya started leading young people as a teenager herself in 1978 in her native Slovenia.

She studied Graham, ballet and choreography at the London School of Contemporary (GB), with Merce Cunningham in NYC, and media and psychology at the New School (NYC).

She developed programs: Eight Steps To Creativity (In Collaboration with Reggie Workman) and The Art of Moving Theater and Choreography (ages 3 and up).
Through Applied Moving Theater she started addressing wider stage practices in a specific social context, specific theater environment and work with special needs. She believes that choreography surrounds us everywhere and is breaking the borders of traditional thinking that choreography is only dance.

Recognized stage works: Moon Above Mississippi, Tristan and Isolda, Jokasta, Clytemnestra, The Night Bird, Closed Door, Fragments in Fabula, Abstractions (Carnegie Recital Hall, NYC), Impressions, etc.
In 2012 she directed a documentary film I Hear With My Eyes (addressing race)
She created shorts with young students: Whats Wrong With The World, Jazz Seen Through Our Eyes, and What Not To Do.
Projects: www.mayamilenovicworkman.com

About MADLOM

GROW WITH MADLOM

MADLOM’s principle offerings are creative performing arts after-school classes and in school residences aimed at kids and youth ages 3-18. We encourage a non-competitive, creative and collaborative environment and inclusion through movement, drama, drumming, poetry and choreography

MADLOM is Located at

First Congregational Church,
40 South Fullerton, Entrance from The Crescent, under MMO
Montclair, NJ 07042